When Anthony Armatys was hired for a six-figure job with Avaya in 2002, he filled out all the necessary paperwork with the company's human resources and payroll departments.

[He changed his mind and never took the job, but Payroll was never notified]

So Armatys started getting paid as though he was an employee. Part of his salary went into a retirement account and the rest was direct-deposited.

[He never alerted the company to the error.]

Officials caught up with Armatys when he tried to make an early withdrawal from his retirement account. Penalty fees aside, the withdrawal sparked an investigation that led to criminal charges. [By that time Armatys had collected and spent almost half a million dollars.]

The 35-year-old Armatys, ... pleaded guilty to second-degree theft. Under a deal... Armatys will face six years in prison when he is sentenced on Jan. 8. He also must repay the company the $470,995.53 he received in salary and retirement savings.

I only eat fruit which falls naturally from trees. Otherwise, it causes harm... If I can, I try to catch them before they land, lest they land on some unsuspecting cricket or caterpillar (and yes, of course I watch my step wherever I walk - I'm not a hypocrite). once again, I'm not against oranges.

I am in Ann's Religion and the Con class. Someone created an e-mail with links of the Isthmus forum, her attack on a fellow blogger for deleting posts and her then deleting posts that made fun of her. It quickly went viral through out law school.

Does anyone know if Ann is British? Or does she just fall back on a British accent as an affectation? Some of my study mates are curious.

UW Law Babe...We have always suspected that Professor Althouse is descended from Elizabeth I of England. She has married a former commoner/commenter and has now raised him to the Duke of Mead. But always remember that she is a most beloved Queen in Althousia.

1) Notice that both Maxine and "Chet" posted there. Remember the night that Chet outted him/herself as Maxine? Link (and see Palladian's comment later on in that thread.

2) Lots of Victoria (vbspurs) back then-we still miss you wherever you are! (and Palladian too).

3) What's up with both Ruth Anne and Trooper York systematically deleting their historical records ala Sippican Cottage? I suppose that one day, Althouse comments will be nothing but "comment deleted by the author."

I followed up on that article you posted about the new hire who never worked yet got $471,000, fls. Primarily because it came from a NJ newspaper, and I live in Jersey. Here was the interesting piece for me:

The company turned it over to authorities, and the prosecutor's Special Investigations Unit, along with town detectives and Avaya security who were investigating this for a YEAR! A friggin' YEAR!

Now that might be funny in a Keystone Cop kind of way, unless you live in this corrupt state. I no longer wonder why so few politicians ever get arrested. The prosecutor's office is busy looking into a payroll error!

As for Ann's accent, no clue. Personally I find her to have a particularly lovely and very engaging voice. It's one of the reasons I think she is so good on Bloggingheads. Another reason is that she's smart. She's even smart enough to not totally overpower, thereby shutting down her opposition. Instead she throws out ... just ... enough ... rope.

That's food for thought, UW Law Babe. I'd hate for you to become chum.

You should know that on this blog, even though some of us are the Professor's betters (or some think they are) she is (fondly by some, probably very fondly by one) referred to as "Althouse" or the "Professor."

I have no idea whether that interview with Imus will, or could, change the tide, as Cavuto says. (I'm not sure it even should, per se.)

But I can tell you it made me laugh a lot, and smile even more, due to nostalgia. It reminded me a lot of the Chris Christie I knew back in the day at the University of Delaware, when he ended being my single favorite person to argue with, sometimes in rather barbed fashion, in student government, in which meetings we might sometimes clash, but were able to laugh about afterward.

(And yes, it was clear he'd tend to the jowly later in life, even then. But who cares?)

Behold the bra-mask -- a brassiere that in an emergency can be turned into a pair of protective face masks.

Bodnar's invention won the Ig Nobel Prize. ...

To use the bra-mask, the wearer unsnaps the brassiere from under her shirt, which breaks it in two. Because each cup has hooks on its side, the strap is wrapped around the head and hooked to the cup, which goes over the mouth. Bodnar said an experienced user can don the mask in mere seconds. It allows one to breathe safely in case of fire, dust storms, or even the nuclear fallout of a Chernobyl disaster....But what about the men?

As Bodnar noted in her Oct.1 acceptance speech at Harvard University, "Isn't it wonderful that women have two breasts, not just one? We can save not only our own lives, but also a man of our choice next to us."

I am in Ann's Religion and the Con class. Someone created an e-mail with links of the Isthmus forum, her attack on a fellow blogger for deleting posts and her then deleting posts that made fun of her. It quickly went viral through out law school.

Does anyone know if Ann is British? Or does she just fall back on a British accent as an affectation? Some of my study mates are curious."

I am sure you're just some nut troll, but it's pretty well known (and true) that Althouse does not delete comments for insulting her... even if they are pretty damn vicious.

Also, a lot of liberals consider her to be an apostate, and are much more vicious towards her than they are towards people who are consistently opposed to their ideals. It's amazing how angry and pathetic the trolls can be sometimes. I didn't consider her accent to be British... you'd have to be quite insular to not know that Americans have a lot of different accents. She's a gadfly that got under your skin? Good for her.

I bet the religion class could be interesting, but ____ and the Law classes never struck me as worth the price.

All my seminars were a load of readings and a long paper, with a few PC laden discussions and presentations. I guess it's important for lawyers to know how to write a journal submission... at least it's important to the school, I am sure.

But law students: don't take these classes! Take real law classes like FIT or Bankruptcy or Corporations! Take Admiralty and Con Law of Political Campaigns!

Take your lumps on the transcript and learn something. No one reads your stupid transcript in a few years anyway.

Can our student tell us what went on in the latest of Ann's religion class? Where the readings pretty good?

I am sure you're just some nut troll, but it's pretty well known (and true) that Althouse does not delete comments for insulting her... even if they are pretty damn vicious.

That's true. I know I've said some bad things at her and she's never deleted them. She's pretty cool about free speech in her comments. Sometimes, though, she makes me feel dumb by front-paging things I posted that I might not have liked front-paged.... :)

I took down a very witty, well-crafted dissection of Law School Babe and her childish comment about Althouse.

I took it down because, law student or not, she's still a child, and needs room to grow up without the real world mocking her.

That will happen when she seeks employment and learns that, nice tits and all, life sucks for those who are in the bottom 90% of their graduating class.

And she is the bottom 90%. Anyone in the top 10% would have been smart enough not to fuck around on a professor's blog. Especially if one calls oneself "Law School Babe", you know....in Law School. Duh.

A guy in heaven goes to visit his old friend Stan, (sirname Fran) who operates a discotheque in hell. Upon returning to heaven, he tells Peter that he has to go back. He left his harp in stan fran's disco.

Agree with Freeman and Michael. I deleted my superlative insults because I thought no law student would be that stupid, so it must be a troll. If it isn't, this person is too stupid to do very well in life, and probably went to law school because s/he couldn't get a real job, and is taking such useful things as religion classes. Not knowing much about the world, insults own professor. So, troll or extremely stupid person, undeserving of the nasty comments I wrote, because the post speaks for itself. The proper response is pity.

"Slow Joe said... I bet the religion class could be interesting, but ____ and the Law classes never struck me as worth the price."

The class is Religion and the Constitution, and it is simply a conlaw class that is entirely focused on the religion clauses. It's not a seminar. It's traditional Socratic with a blind-graded exam just like your most hardcore trad law school course.

But I know what you mean about "Law and..." classes. Bu

"Take real law classes like FIT or Bankruptcy or Corporations! Take Admiralty and Con Law of Political Campaigns!"

So if the class were called "Corporations and the Law" it would become bad?

"Can our student tell us what went on in the latest of Ann's religion class? Where the readings pretty good?"

My Religion and the Constitution class is so small, that no one would say she was in it AND specify the sex. It narrows the category down to so few individuals that it is simply not a way of keeping your identity private. On that point alone, I am virtually certain it isn't one of my students.

"I am sure you're just some nut troll, but it's pretty well known (and true) that Althouse does not delete comments for insulting her... even if they are pretty damn vicious."

I did delete the first 2 comments on this post because they were such a bad start to an open thread. They had no significant content, but were on the level of a flat "You're ugly." I didn't like the attempt to sink the whole thread.

"I am near the top in my class grade wise. (And looks wise. LOL!) Finally, I am too tall to be a troll. LOL! Though, Ann could ask me a question about her class that only a student this term could answer."

Well, since there are only about 5 female students in the class you say you are in, why would you add more info to identify yourself. That would be stupid, yet you say you are "near the top" of your class "grade wise," which implies you are not stupid. Ergo, you are not in the class.

Michael Hasenstab said..."I took down a very witty, well-crafted dissection of Law School Babe and her childish comment about Althouse. I took it down because, law student or not, she's still a child, and needs room to grow up without the real world mocking her."

Law students are adults.

And the ones I know are very hardworking and serious -- especially in this extremely difficult job market.

I agree with your observation that they are very unlikely to be screwing around acting like assholes in the comments to a law professor's blog.